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One man in particular comes to mind. He lived close enough to walk in but often
rode his bike. Old Bob had worked with horses and called tractors, “They
Dorset Property Care thousand pound armchairs”and didn’t ever intend to drive anything apart from a
Allan Slater horse. He didn’t even like being driven in a car.
Based in Briantspuddle When his eldest daughter was married, Bob was about sixty years old. On the day
 Services of the wedding his wife dressed him in his “best” clothes and marched him off to
 Building maintenance the village church. The reception was to be at the new home of the bride and
 General joinery groom some four miles away on a recently built, housing estate. After the
wedding service, despite many offers for lifts in cars, Bob said no, “I’ll go on my
 Garden maintenance bike”. So Bob followed on in all his wedding splendour on his four mile trek on his
 Garden landscaping bike. But he never arrived at the reception.
 Kitchens Later that day when his wife and younger daughter arrived home, they found
 Man and digger hire Bob eating his tea. Of course they were furious and wanted to know why he
hadn’t turned up at the reception. He replied that he had ridden to the village
concerned but couldn’t find the house. As the estate consisted of only twelve
07973 158092 houses, they asked him why he didn’t ask or even look for the cars that had been
used that day? To this of course he had no answer, except that he couldn’t
allan@dorsetpropertycare.co.uk remember her new name. Bob was a countryman, who kept himself to himself
www.dorsetpropertycare.co.uk and was too shy at sixty to mix with people he hardly knew.
I hope that is worth the few moments needed to read this.

May I say thank you for your comments for past articles, to Madge or myself
May God bless you all.
Ted Cox

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